Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 17-100, Joshua Gill, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gill, Joshua
B.L.Wt 17-100
CONTENTS

Elmer Velders Lower Peninsula

Know all men by these Presents that I Ebenezer Selden do Constitute & appoint the Hon. William Shepard my agent & attorney to ask & receive at the War office of the Uni- -ted States the Military Bounty land due to Joshua Gill late a soldier in the 4 th Massachusetts Regt. Enlisted for the War only & slain by the Enemy at the siege of York Town in Virginia in October - 1781 — Witness my hand & seal
December 23 rd 1802
attest Justin Granger Jehiel Hamlin
Ebenezer Selden
Hampshire ss. Dec. 23 rd 1802
Then the Above named Eben: Selden personally appeared before me & acknowledged this Instrument to be his Free
Abn. Burbank Justice
This may Certify that Ebenezer Selden is the legal Representative of Joshua Gill & the proper person to receive any dues of the said Joshua Gill & that Gill en- -listed as a soldier for the Town of West Springfield in Massachusetts
Sam l Flower Woman Day. Jem l Norton
{ Select men of W. Springfield

Joshua Gill Masterlin
Lodged by Gen. Sheppard.
Assessed W. N. 17
Ebenezer Nelson
Pro Mas. line
Provisional Masterlin Joshua Gill
Lodged by Gen. Sheppard

city of Washington Dec r 29 1882 This may certify that Joshua Gill was enlisted for during the war with Greatbrittain and America and that he was slain in Battle at or near York Town in Virginia at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and the army under his command W m Shepard } late Colo of the P. & M. Massachusetts Regiment